Re: Military as a "Service"

The question was about whether the military involves a class process. If it does, then it has to produce a surplus and that means that the output of the military has to include surplus output that is distributed in money or in-kind form to others and the necessary output that pays for the military's salary and products would also have to be sold or distributed in-kind as exchange for necessary goods. This is not what happens with the military. It does not produce and output that has market value that could be translated into a necessary and surplus portion. Instead, the military provides unproductive labor in support of the existing social and economic system, just as feudal knights do.